Romans 6:21
What good did you get from doing the things you are now ashamed of? Why, they result in death!
2 Timothy 1:9
He saved us and called us to a consecrated life, not for anything we had done, but of his own accord and out of the mercy which he bestowed upon us ages ago through Christ Jesus,
Titus 3:3-6
For we ourselves were once without understanding, disobedient, deluded, enslaved to all kinds of passions and pleasures. Our minds were full of malice and envy. Men hated us and we hated one another.
1 Peter 4:2-3
and no longer lives by what men desire, but for the rest of his earthly life by what God wills.